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State v. Waddy

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of Ohio
Citation
63 Ohio St. 3d 424
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
67 of 67
Citing cases (total)
67
Treatment dates
1997
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. A later Ohio constitutional amendment displaced State v. Waddy's rule against reviewing the weight of evidence in a capital case. The Supreme Court of Ohio recognized that change in State v. Smith.
More on how this was screened

Waddy's other holdings continue to be cited. All 67 flagged citations have been read; the confirmed treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

67 later cases cite State v. Waddy; 67 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court of Ohio held that a constitutional amendment made Waddy's prohibition on reviewing weight of evidence in capital appeals moot.

    State v. Smith · Supreme Court of Ohio · filed

    However, we have also held that we may not review weight- of-the-evidence claims. See State v. Shoemaker (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 664, 664-665, 660 N.E.2d 1197, 1198-1199; State v. Eley (1996), 77 Ohio St.3d 174, 180, 672 N.E.2d 640, 648; State v. Waddy (1992), 63 Ohio St.3d 424, 432, 588 N.E.2d 819, 827; ... Those issues are now mooted by the passage of the Issue I amendments to the Ohio Constitution.
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